Enjoying the view from Limbo
Recently, a serious student mired in stressful study for a professional certification exam expressed anxiety about her current situation and concern about her work ethic, wondering how her study progress, judged by Time, would look any better than the movement of a sloth. This description got me thinking about our common use of the sloth as a standard metaphor for inefficient or unproductive...
These days, it is hard to find a so-called “conservative” or “libertarian” who sees freedom with clear eyes. Two centuries of creeping political progress have caused a slow-developing glaucoma of the spirit which obscures the natural view of self and world that had previously revealed itself in history’s struggle to recognize and emancipate the independent individual mind. This progressive corruption of vision explains,...
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